L'Elisir d'Amore

Saturday, Feb 10, 9:55 amSunday, Feb 18, 1:00 pm

Running Time: 2:59

Pretty Yende debuts a new role at the Met with her first Adina opposite Matthew Polenzani, who enthralled Met audiences as Nemorino in 2013 with his ravishing “Una furtiva lagrima.” Bartlett Sher’s production is charming, with deft comedic timing, but also emotionally revealing. Domingo Hindoyan conducts.

Stassya Pacheco returns for a pre-opera lecture prior to every Saturday live transmission, 30 minutes before the start time. Also, Saturday operas offer the option of pre-ordering your lunch from Pacioni's Market. Pre-order lunches are made up during the opera and ready for you to enjoy during the intermission. We will also have recorded encore screenings of all performances.

Phantom Thread

Set in the glamour of 1950's post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock and his sister Cyril are at the center of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutants and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock. Women come and go through Woodcock's life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship, until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma, who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Once controlled and planned, he finds his carefully tailored life disrupted by love. With his latest film, Paul Thomas Anderson paints an illuminating portrait both of an artist on a creative journey, and the women who keep his world running.

Directed By: Paul Thomas Anderson

Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville, and Vicky Krieps.

Six Academy Awards Nominations including: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Director.

I, Tonya

Based on the unbelievable, but true events, I, Tonya is a darkly comedic tale of American figure skater, Tonya Harding, and one of the most sensational scandals in sports history. Though Harding was the first American woman to complete a triple axel in competition, her legacy was forever defined by her association with an infamous, ill-conceived, and even more poorly executed attack on fellow Olympic competitor Nancy Kerrigan. Featuring an iconic turn by Margot Robbie as the fiery Harding, a mustachioed Sebastian Stan as her impetuous ex-husband Jeff Gillooly, a tour-de-force performance from Allison Janney as her acid-tongued mother, LaVona Golden, and an original screenplay by Steven Rogers, Craig Gillespie's I, Tonya is an absurd, irreverent, and piercing portrayal of Harding's life and career in all of its unchecked--and checkered--glory.

La Boheme

Saturday, Feb 24, 9:55 amSunday, Mar 11, 1:00 pm

Running Time: 3:16 minutes

The world’s most popular opera returns in Franco Zeffirelli’s classic production, with a series of exciting casts. Angel Blue, Anita Hartig, and Sonya Yoncheva share the role of the fragile Mimì, with Dmytro Popov, Russell Thomas, and Michael Fabiano alternating as the poet Rodolfo. Alexander Soddy and Marco Armiliato share conducting duties.

Stassya Pacheco returns for a pre-opera lecture prior to every Saturday live transmission, 30 minutes before the start time. Also, Saturday operas offer the option of pre-ordering your lunch from Pacioni's Market. Pre-order lunches are made up during the opera and ready for you to enjoy during the intermission. We will also have recorded encore screenings of all performances.

Luisa Marshall as Tina Turner "THE QUEEN OF ROCK N ROLL"

Saturday, February 24, 2018 - 8:00pm

Presented by: Simply The Best Talent

As seen on Oprah and ELLEN - World Rock N Roll Tribute Artist Champion Luisa Marshall brings her spectacular show with her band and dancers to The Historic Lincoln Theatre. Her uncanny resemblance to Tina Turner paved the way for her world class tribute act with rave reviews and standing ovations all over the world.

Luisa has been on Oprah twice, and lately made an appearance on Ellen which received an incredible 26-second standing ovation. Luisa was also invited to walk on the Red Carpet at the 2014 Golden Globe Awards.

This show is super fun, rockin’ and engaging. Luisa also surprises the audience as she pays tribute as Tina to some of her favorite Divas Shania Twain, Lady Gaga, Amy Winehouse, Etta James to name a few.

Get ready with your cellphones because you or someone you know may end up dancing on stage.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Sunday, Feb 25, 1:00 pm

Tennessee Williams’ twentieth century masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof played a strictly limited season in London’s West End in 2017. Following his smash hit production of A Streetcar Named Desire, Benedict Andrews’ ‘thrilling revival’ (New York Times) stars Sienna Miller alongside, Jack O’Connell and Colm Meaney.

On a steamy night in Mississippi, a Southern family gather at their cotton plantation to celebrate Big Daddy’s birthday. The scorching heat is almost as oppressive as the lies they tell. Brick and Maggie dance round the secrets and sexual tensions that threaten to destroy their marriage. With the future of the family at stake, which version of the truth is real – and which will win out?

International Guitar Night 2018

Saturday, March 3, 2018 - 8:00pmSunday, March 4, 2018 - 7:30pm

Tickets go on sale to Lincoln Theatre Members on Friday, December 15 and to the general public on Friday, December 22.

For IGN's 18th year of touring, Germany's Gypsy Jazz legend Lulo Reinhardt will return as the show's host and will be joined by Calum Graham, the young Canadian contemporary sensation; Marek Pasieczny, Poland's innovative classical composer/performer, and award-winning American guitarist Michael Chapdelaine. Formed in 1995 by Brian Gore, International Guitar Night is the world's premier, and longest running, mobile guitar festival featuring a new quartet of musicians hand-picked by Brian each year.

Lulo has built on grand-uncle Django Reinhardt's repertoire by introducing Latin rhythms. Calum has a two-handed style that has attracted millions of YouTube viewers. Marek has performed and written for a variety of orchestras around the world, and Michael has won both the Guitar Foundation of America Classical Guitar Competition and the National Fingerstyle Championship for steel string guitar.

We will host a free guitar workshop for ticket buyers on Sunday, March 4. Time and logistics TBD.

Jamie Ford

Tuesday, March 6, 2018 - 7:30pm

His debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, spent two years on the New York Times bestseller list and went on to win the 2010 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. His work has been translated into 34 languages. Ford’s half-Chinese descent lent him the idea for this powerful book about the World War II internment of Japanese Americans through the eyes of a young Chinese boy who befriends a Japanese American girl.

Ford's latest novel, Love and Other Consolation Prizes, is inspired by a true story about a boy whose life is transformed at Seattle’s epic 1909 World’s Fair.

Jamie tells stories and shares the latest happenings with his breakout novel, Hotel on the Corner and Bitter and Sweet, including film updates, the stage musical, and how Hotel has found its way into schools across the nation, complete with reading good, bad, and hilariously honest tweets from actual high school students––a hazard of “becoming homework.”

He also touches on the trauma of writing his sophomore novel, the bestselling Songs of Willow Frost, and how writers and artists risk becoming prisoners of their own success.

Lastly, Jamie shares the story-behind-the story, of his latest book, Love and Other Consolation Prizes. He discusses research, like interviewing someone who was both a high-paid escort and also a public librarian, and how being jilted at the 6th grade skating party altered the trajectory of his writing career.

Followed by Q&A, book signing, and photos.

The Burlington and La Conner Library Foundations are pleased to host Ford’s appearance.

Book sales at the event will be available through Seaport Books from La Conner.

Semiramide

Saturday, Mar 10, 9:55 amSunday, Mar 25, 1:00 pm

Running Time: 3:50

This masterpiece of dazzling vocal fireworks makes a rare Met appearance—its first in nearly 25 years—with Maurizio Benini on the podium. The all-star bel canto cast features Angela Meade in the title role of the murderous Queen of Babylon, who squares off in breathtaking duets with Arsace, a trouser role sung by Elizabeth DeShong. Javier Camarena, Ildar Abdrazakov, and Ryan Speedo Green complete the stellar cast.

Stassya Pacheco returns for a pre-opera lecture prior to every Saturday live transmission, 30 minutes before the start time. Also, Saturday operas offer the option of pre-ordering your lunch from Pacioni's Market. Pre-order lunches are made up during the opera and ready for you to enjoy during the intermission. We will also have recorded encore screenings of all performances.

Geoffrey Castle's 13th Annual St. Patrick's Celebration

Friday, March 16, 2018 - 8:00pm

Get your Green on with Geoffrey Castle's Celtic Celebration and fundraiser for The Rick Epting Foundation For The Arts Music Scholarship for Underserved Kids. This amazing production has sold out the Kirkland Performing Art's Center 13 years in a row.

Geoffrey will be bringing: The Award Winning Seattle Irish Dance Company, The Castle Celtic Night Band with Dan Connelly and special guests including Anacortes Town Crier Richard Riddell, Mount Vernon's own Don Wick as MC and of course there will be bagpipes. This is the fourth year we have presented this show to our community and it has sold out each year. So get your tickets early.

The Rick Epting Foundation For The Arts has started a fund for underserved music students to assist with their lessons and equipment rentals. With funding for the arts and music in our school being cuts so drastically it is more important than ever to support our students and help them get their music education.

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Saturday, Mar 17, 7:30 pm

Jacques Demy's 1964 masterpiece is a pop-art opera, or, to borrow the director's own description, a film in song. This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery (a luminous Catherine Deneuve), an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant (Marc Michel, reprising his role from Demy's masterful debut, Lola). A completely sung movie, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is closest in form to a cinematic opera. Composer Michel Legrand composed the score, modeling it around the patterns of everyday conversation.

Paul started playing music professionally on the Bluegrass Banjo and later crossed over to the Slack Key Guitar. Beginning in 1996, Paul has been a regular on the Hawaiian Slack key Guitar Festival Tours and also received the “Hawaiian Music Awards Best Recording by a Slack Key Artist for his CD entitled “Ohana ‘O Kauai Slack Key Instrumentals".

Dwight Kanae

A veteran of the Hawaiian music industry and scene. Dwight has been a professional musician for over 35 plus years. He has traveled the world several times playing the music of Hawaii and Slack Key Guitar.

Bobby Moderow

A product of the 1970’s, Bobby was the typical guy whose interest in music at the time consisted mainly of classic rock, Hawaiian music, and slack key guitar. His major influences came from such groups as Olomana, Makaha Sons, Raymond Kane, Ledward Kaapana, Hui Ohana, Dennis Pavao and other prominent Hawaiian artists of the era.

Stephen Inglis

Stephen Inglis is a versatile artist. He crosses genres, yet his music always radiates integrity. Born and raised in Honolulu, he plays Grammy nominated Hawaiian slack key guitar.

David Gans

A David Gans “solo electric” performance is likely to consist of several elements: Country-blues-style fingerpicking; loop based improvisations created live in the moment; sweetly-sung ballands, original or borrowed and Grateful Dead songs reinterpreted to suit his voice and guitar.

Anela Lauren

Originally a classical pianist, Anela Lauren now enjoys adding the kaleidoscropic tones of the celtic harp to just about any type of music. Her first album, “Mele from the Harp,” celebrates the spirit of aloha by combining the harp with slack key guitar and cello

Hamlet

Academy Award® nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (BBC’s Sherlock,The Imitation Game) takes on the title role of Shakespeare’s great tragedy.

Now seen by over 750,000 people worldwide, the original 2015 NT Live broadcast returns to cinemas in March 2018.

As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father’s death but paralysed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state. Directed by Lyndsey Turner (Posh, Chimerica) and produced by Sonia Friedman Productions.

Cosi Fan Tutte

Saturday, Mar 31, 9:55 am Sunday, Apr 8, 1:00 pm

Running Time: 3:56

A winning cast comes together for Phelim McDermott’s clever vision of Mozart’s comedy about the sexes, set in a carnival-esque, funhouse environment inspired by 1950s Coney Island—complete with bearded ladies, fire eaters, and a Ferris wheel. Manipulating the action are the Don Alfonso of Christopher Maltman and the Despina of Tony Award–winner Kelli O’Hara, with Amanda Majeski, Serena Malfi, Ben Bliss, and Adam Plachetka as the pairs of young lovers who test each other’s faithfulness. David Robertson conducts.

Stassya Pacheco returns for a pre-opera lecture prior to every Saturday live transmission, 30 minutes before the start time. Also, Saturday operas offer the option of pre-ordering your lunch from Pacioni's Market. Pre-order lunches are made up during the opera and ready for you to enjoy during the intermission. We will also have recorded encore screenings of all performances.

Fly Fishing Film Tour 2018

Thursday, April 5 at 7:00pm

Come enjoy the latest in fly fishing adventure film and support wild steelhead on Thursday, April 5th at the Lincoln Theater. The film tour will feature a variety of short films about fly fishing from around the globe. Following the film there will be a raffle for a number of fishing products and logo gear to enjoy. All proceeds from the event will go to our local North Sound Chapter of Trout Unlimited for use in wild steelhead recovery efforts.

The festival consists of short and feature length films produced by professional filmmakers from all corners of the globe, showcasing the passion, lifestyle and culture of fly-fishing. The films at this popular event are capturing the attention of anglers around the world.

The Lincoln Theatre presents legendary singer, manager and record producer

Peter Asher

and guitarist

Albert Lee

on Saturday, April 7 at 8:00pm

As one half of Peter & Gordon, Peter Asher's voice "literally soared through Carnegie Hall" (Fox News), while Albert Lee has been called "the ultimate virtuoso" by Eric Clapton. Influenced from their earliest days as musicians and performers by great American artists like Buddy Holly and The Everly Brothers, Peter Asher and Albert Lee bring those influences to the fore in their first series of shows together as an acoustic duo.

Theirs is a history of song, and these duo shows will reflect that history. From the Peter & Gordon catalog, Peter Asher and Albert Lee will harmonize on "World Without Love", "I Go To Pieces", and more. From Albert Lee's back pages, expect the Jimmy Webb penned title track from his new acoustic album, "The Highwayman", Glenn Campbell's"A Better Place", and the Jimmy Jones/Otis Blackwell classic "Handy Man". Inspirations to both artists such as the Everly Brothers provide "Crying in the Rain" and "Bye Bye Love", while from Buddy Holly comes "Well, All Right". As Peter & Albert tell us stories of the travels that brought them to so many of the intersections of music history, the two legends bring these timeless songs to life.

Luisa Miller

Saturday, Apr 14, 9:30 am
Sunday, Apr 29, 1:00 pm

Running Time: 3:58

James Levine and Plácido Domingo add yet another chapter to their legendary Met collaboration with this rarely performed Verdi gem, a heart-wrenching tragedy of fatherly love. Sonya Yoncheva sings the title role opposite Piotr Beczała in the first Met performances of the opera in more than ten years.

Stassya Pacheco returns for a pre-opera lecture prior to every Saturday live transmission, 30 minutes before the start time. Also, Saturday operas offer the option of pre-ordering your lunch from Pacioni's Market. Pre-order lunches are made up during the opera and ready for you to enjoy during the intermission. We will also have recorded encore screenings of all performances.

Julius Caesar

Sunday, Apr 15, 1:00 pm

Ben Whishaw (The Danish Girl, Skyfall, Hamlet) and Michelle Fairley (Fortitude, Game of Thrones) play Brutus and Cassius, David Calder (The Lost City of Z, The Hatton Garden Job) plays Caesar and David Morrissey (The Missing, Hangmen, The Walking Dead) is Mark Antony. Broadcast live from The Bridge Theatre, London.

Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat’s popularity, the educated élite conspire to bring him down. After his assassination, civil war erupts on the streets of the capital.

Nicholas Hytner’s production will thrust the audience into the street party that greets Caesar’s return, the congress that witnesses his murder, the rally that assembles for his funeral and the chaos that explodes in its wake.

Cendrillon

Saturday, Apr 28, 9:55 amSunday, May 27, 1:00 pm

Running Time: 3:12

“Glorious,” raved the New York Times when Joyce DiDonato sang the title role of Cendrillon at the Royal Opera in 2011. “Her performance was thoroughly enchanting.” Now, for the first time ever, Massenet’s sumptuous take on the Cinderella story comes to the Met, with DiDonato starring in the title role. She is paired with mezzo-soprano Alice Coote in the trouser role of Prince Charming, Kathleen Kim as the Fairy Godmother, and Stephanie Blythe as the imperious Madame de la Haltière. Bertrand de Billy conducts Laurent Pelly’s imaginative storybook production.

Stassya Pacheco returns for a pre-opera lecture prior to every Saturday live transmission, 30 minutes before the start time. Also, Saturday operas offer the option of pre-ordering your lunch from Pacioni's Market. Pre-order lunches are made up during the opera and ready for you to enjoy during the intermission. We will also have recorded encore screenings of all performances.

Paula Poundstone

on Saturday, April 28 at 8:00pm

Fresh on the heels of the release of her hilarious new book, THE TOTALLY UNSCIENTIFIC STUDY OF THE SEARCH FOR HUMAN HAPPINESS (Algonquin Books), comedian Paula Poundstone is entertaining audiences across the country and leaving them complaining that their cheeks hurt from laughter and wondering if the random people she talks to are plants. Of course, they never are.

Poundstone can be heard regularly on NPR’s #1 show, the weekly comedy news quiz Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me! When asked about Paula, Wait, Wait host Peter Sagal replied, "Paula Poundstone is the funniest human being I have ever known. Everything she does, thinks, or says is hilarious. She is made of funny. If you chopped her into bits, each piece would be hilarious. (But don’t.) Air becomes funny having been breathed by her.”

A star of several HBO specials and her own series on ABC and HBO, Poundstone voiced the character “Forgetter Paula” in the Academy Award winning feature film INSIDE OUT. She was the first woman to share the dais with the President and perform standup comedy at the White House Correspondents Dinner. She won an American Comedy Award for Best Female Standup Comic and is included in innumerable lists, documentaries and literary compendiums noting influential standup comedians of our time. She has released three performance CD’s, her most recent, NORTH BY NORTHWEST -- a double-live CD-set (HighBridge Audio).

Paula added another medium to her impressive repertoire on July 8, 2017 when she launched her new weekly podcast – LIVE FROM THE POUNDSTONE INSTITUTE. Joined by a live and lively audience, and her Chief of Research and fellow Wait Wait Panelist, Adam Felber, Poundstone takes on the research studies that are so odd they just beg for someone to stand up and say “wait, what?!” The podcast is produced in association with NPR station KPCC and distributed by NPR.

On stage, Poundstone is known for her casual style, smart, observational humor, and a razor sharp spontaneous wit that has become the stuff of legend. Garrison Keillor described her as “the bravest and best improv comic of our time.”